INTRODUCTIONIf one of the Faithful participates in a Roman
Catholic Mass every single day of the year, for three years, he/she
will hear a considerable part of the Holy Scriptures (New and Old
Testaments) during these liturgies. However, many parts of the Holy
Scripture will never be read in Mass; thus, they will not be heard by
the most faithful of the Faithful unless they make a point of studying
the Holy Scriptures.

In the four Gospels the omissions, in many cases,
make sense, since the same story or parable appears in more than one
Gospel. Although they do not necessarily appear in the same manner, the
key concept is still transmitted to the Faithful. The real problem
arises when major portions of the Old Testament are simply left out
from what should have been the Evangelization Process.

Take the Books
of the Major Prophets, for example. Most of their contents are
not read in a Roman Catholic Mass. Thus, most of the Faithful are
ignorant of their very important contents unless they have made an
effort to study it on their own.

Through the Grace of God and the diligent work of
Mrs. R. M., from Puerto Rico, we are able to bring to you today all
verses from the Book of Ruthwhich have been left out of the
Roman Catholic Masses.

The on-line Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy
Bible was used in the development of what we now call the "Inconvenient Bible".

The
Book of Ruth

Biblical
Verses Omitted From Roman Catholic Mass Readings

Chapter
1
verses 2, 7-14a and 17-21 have been omitted from the Mass readings.

[2]
He was named Elimelech, and his wife, Noemi: and
his two sons, the one Mahalon, and the other Chelion, Ephrathites of
Bethlehem
Juda. And entering into the country of Moab, they abode there.

[7]
Wherefore she went forth out of the place of her
sojournment, with both her daughters in
law: and
being now in the way to return into the land of Juda,
[8] She said to them:

Go
ye home to your mothers:
the Lord deal mercifully with you, as you have dealt with the dead and
with me.
[9] May he grant you to find rest in the
houses of the
husbands which you shall take.

And
she kissed them. And they lifted up their voice
and began to weep, [10] And to say:

We
will go on with thee to thy people.

[11]
But she answered them:

Return,
my daughters: why come
ye with me? have I any more sons in my
womb, that you
may hope for husbands of me? [12] Return again, my daughters, and go
your ways:
for I am now spent with age, and not fit for wedlock. Although I might
conceive
this night, and bear children, [13] If you
would wait
till they were grown up, and come to man's estate, you would be old
women
before you marry. Do not so, my daughters, I beseech you: for I am
grieved the
more for your distress, and the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.

[14]
And they lifted up their voice, and began to
weep again: ...

[17]
The land that shall receive thee
dying, in the same will I die: and there will I be buried. The Lord do
so and
so to me, and add more also, if aught but death part me and thee.

[18]
Then Noemi, seeing that Ruth was steadfastly
determined to go with her, would not be against it, nor persuade her
any more
to return to her friends: [19] So they went together and came to
Bethlehem. And
when they were come into the city, the report was quickly spread among
all: and
the women said:

This
is that Noemi.

[20]
But she said to them: Call me not Noemi, (that
is, beautiful,) but call me Mara, (that is, bitter,) for the Almighty
hath
quite filled me with bitterness. [21] I went out full, and the Lord
hath
brought me back empty. Why then do you call me Noemi, whom the Lord
hath
humbled and the Almighty hath afflicted?

Chapter
2
verses 4-7 and 12-23 have been omitted from the Mass readings.

[4]
And behold, he came out of Bethlehem, and said
to the reapers:

The
Lord be with you.

And
they answered him:

The
Lord bless thee.

[5]
And Booz said to the young man that was set over
the reapers:

Whose
maid is this?

[6]
And he answered him:

This
is the Moabitess who
came with Noemi, from the land of Moab, [7] And
she
desired leave to glean the ears of corn that remain, following the
steps of the
reapers: and she hath been in the field from morning till now, and hath
not
gone home for one moment.

[12]
The Lord render unto thee for thy work, and mayest
thou receive a full reward of the Lord the God of
Israel, to whom thou art come, and under whose wings thou art fled.

[13]
And she said:

I
have found grace in thy eyes, my lord, who hast
comforted me and hast spoken to the heart of
thy handmaid, who am not like to one of thy maids.

[14]
And Booz said to her:

At
mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread,
and dip thy morsel in the vinegar.

So
she sat at the side of the reapers, and she
heaped to herself frumenty, and ate and was filled, and took the
leavings. [15]
And she arose from thence, to glean the ears of corn as before. And
Booz
commanded his servants, saying: If she would even reap with you, hinder
her
not:

[16]
And let fall some of your handfuls of purpose,
and leave them, that she may gather them without shame, and let no man
rebuke
her when she gathereth them.

[17]
She gleaned therefore in the field till
evening: and beating out with a rod and threshing what she had gleaned,
she
found about the measure of an ephi of
barley, that
is, three bushels: [18] Which she took up and returned into the city,
and shewed it to her mother in law:
moreover she brought out, and gave her of
the remains of her meat,
wherewith she had been filled. [19] And her mother in law said to her:

Where
hast thou gleaned today, and where hast thou
wrought? blessed be he that hath had pity
on thee.

And
she told her with whom she had wrought: and she
told the man's name, that he was called Booz.

[20]
And Noemi answered her:

Blessed
be he of the Lord:
because the same kindness which he shewed
to the
living, he hath kept also to the dead.

And
again she said:

The
man is our kinsman.

[21]
And Ruth said,

He
also charged me, that I
should keep close to his reapers, till all the corn should be reaped.

[22]
And her mother in law said to her:

It
is better for thee, my daughter, to go out to
reap with his maids, lest in another man's field some
one
may resist thee.

[23]
So she kept close to the maids of Booz: and
continued to glean with them, till all the barley and the wheat were
laid up in
the barns.

Chapter
3
verses 1-18 have been omitted from the Mass readings.

[1]
After she was returned to her mother in law,
Noemi said to her:

My
daughter, I will seek rest for thee, and will
provide that it may be well with thee. [2] This Booz, with whose maids
thou wast joined in the field, is our near
kinsman, and behold
this night he winnoweth barley in the threshingfloor. [3] Wash thyself therefore and
anoint thee,
and put on thy best garments, and go down
to the barnfloor: but let not the man see
thee, till he shall have
done eating and drinking. [4] And when he shall go to sleep, mark the
place
wherein he sleepeth: and thou shalt
go in, and lift up the clothes wherewith he is covered towards his
feet, and shalt lay thyself down there:
and he will tell thee what
thou must do.

[5]
She answered:

Whatsoever
thou shalt
command, I will do.

[6]
And she went down to the barnfloor,
and did all that her mother in law had bid her.

[7]
And when Booz had eaten, and drunk, and was
merry, he went to sleep by the heap of sheaves, and she came softly and
uncovering his feet, laid herself down.

[8]
And behold, when it was now midnight the man was
afraid, and troubled: and he saw a woman lying at his feet, [9] And he said to her:

Blessed
art thou of the Lord, my daughter, and thy
latter kindness has surpassed the former: because thou hast not
followed young
men either poor or rich. [11] Fear not therefore, but whatsoever thou shalt say to me I will do to thee. For all the
people that
dwell within the gates of my city, know that thou art a virtuous woman.
[12]
Neither do I deny myself to be near of kin, but there is another nearer
than I.
[13] Rest thou this night: and when morning is come, if he will take
thee by
the right of kindred, all is well: but if he will not, I will
undoubtedly take
thee, as the Lord liveth: sleep till the
morning.

[14]
So she slept at his feet till the night was
going off. And she arose before men could know one another, and Booz
said:
Beware lest any man know that thou camest
hither.

[15]
And again he said:

Spread
thy mantle, wherewith thou art covered, and
hold it with both hands.

And
when she spread it and held it, he measured six
measures of barley, and laid it upon her. And she carried it and went
into the
city, [16] And came to her mother in law;
who said to
her:

What
hast thou done,
daughter?

And
she told her all that the man had done to her.
[17] And she said:

Behold
he hath given me six measures of barley: for
he said: I will not have thee return empty to thy mother in law.

[18]
And Noemi said:

Wait
my daughter, till we see what end the thing
will have. For the man will not rest until he have
accomplished what he hath said.

Chapter
4
verses 1-12 and 18-22 have been omitted from the Mass readings.

[1]
Then Booz went up to the gate, and sat there.
And when he had seen the kinsman going by, of whom he had spoken
before, he
said to him, calling him by his name:

Turn
aside for a little while, and sit down here.

He
turned aside, and sat down.

[2]
And Booz taking ten men of the ancients of the
city, said to them:

Sit
ye down here.

[3]
They sat down,

and
he spoke to the kinsman:

Noemi,
who is returned from the country of Moab,
will sell a parcel of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech.
[4] I would have thee to understand this, and would tell thee before
all that
sit here, and before the ancients of my people. If thou wilt take
possession of
it by the right of kindred: buy it and possess it: but if it please
thee not, tell me so, that I may know what I have to do. For there is
no near
kinsman besides thee, who art first, and
me, who am
second.

But
he answered:

I
will buy the field.

[5]
And Booz said to him:

When
thou shalt buy the
field at the woman's hand, thou must take also Ruth the Moabitess,
who was the wife of the deceased: to raise
up the name
of thy kinsman in his inheritance.

[6]
He answered:

I
yield up my right of next akin: for I must not cut
off the posterity of my own family. Do thou make use of my privilege,
which I profess
I do willingly forego.

[7]
Now this in former times was the manner in
Israel between kinsmen, that if at any time one yielded his right to
another:
that the grant might be sure, the man put off his shoe, and gave it to
his neighhour; this was a testimony of
cession of right in
Israel.

[8]
So Booz said to his kinsman:

Put
off thy shoe. And immediately he took it off
from his foot. [9] And he said to the ancients and to all the people:

You
are witnesses this day, that I have bought all
that was Elimelech's, and Chelion's,
and Mahalon's, of the hand of Noemi: [10]
And have
taken to wife Ruth the Moabitess, the wife
of Mahalon, to raise
up the name of
the deceased in his inheritance lest his name be cut off, from among
his family
and his brethren and his people. You, I say, are witnesses of this
thing.

[11]
Then all the people that were in the gate, and
the ancients answered:

We
are witnesses:

The
Lord make this woman who cometh into thy house,
like Rachel, and Lia, who built up the
house of
Israel: that she may be an example of virtue in Ephrata, and may have a
famous
name in Bethlehem: [12] And that the house may be, as the house of Phares, whom Thamar
bore unto Juda, of the seed which the Lord
shall give thee of this
young woman.

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